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G. Krishan Ginige, P.E./MS/CFM – President & Senior Engineer. Mr. Ginige brings over 25 years of experience to SEC. His experience includes the construction of water & wastewater treatment plants, water distribution systems with large storage capacity, power stations, road construction, high-rise buildings, large warehouses, hospitals, flood studies, subdivision development and utility design To this, he adds his experience in planning, scheduling, progress monitoring, estimating, quality and safety control, and team coordination. His skill at building successful working relationships with clients and staff as well as his software proficiency including AutoCad, FLO-2D, HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, Hydraflow Stormsewer, Hydraflow Express, along with various other office management programs has been a huge asset to the SEC team. At SEC, examples of projects that Mr. Ginige has completed are:
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Mark Farr, RLS – Vice President/Principal Surveyor
Mr. Farr has over 35 years of field and office experience, including large developments, from their initial stages to the final construction surveys and as-built drawings. He has worked with governmental agencies at the municipal, county, and state levels. His background includes cadastral and boundary surveying, construction surveying, as-built documentation, sectional breakdowns, subdivision lot surveys, minor land divisions, associated legal descriptions and results of survey plats. In addition, Mark has been involved in the supervision and management of survey crews, proposal preparation, and contract administration. |
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Neil Johnson – Quality Assurance/Quality Control and Project Liaison
Mr. Johnson has over 40 years of production and supervisory experience on a wide array of projects working with engineering and construction projects including quality control review. These projects range in size and complexity from small, two or three person teams working in remote locations to large, multi-disciplinary planning and design efforts. His diverse experience has made him adept at organizing, describing, and problem solving complex issues inherent to planning and design projects of all sizes. His years working as a forester have made him sensitive to environmental concerns and lead him to naturally include these concerns in his planning and design efforts. His experience includes: review for code compliance, value engineering, cost control and scheduling. |
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Thushari Ginige, Civil Engineer P.E./MS/CFM
Ms. Ginige brings over 16 years of highly motivated and creative engineering experience to the SEC team. Her experience in hydraulic modeling and design and her ability to work with specification and regulatory requirements produces high quality results and reports. At Southwestern Environmental Consultants, Ms. Ginige is responsible for Flood studies and Drainage studies, Water system designs, Sewer designs, Grading plans, Utility plans, As Built plans, Site inspection, Scheduling and Billing. Ms.Ginige’s valued experience working in Sri Lanka has added to her ability to work with a variety of team members. Along with her teaching experience, this group of skills adds to her patience and innovative style. |
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Richard Noone, Civil Engineer
Richard brings over 12 years of construction management experience working in the oil and gas industry transporting and installing oil field equipment and subsea infrastructure and was lead operations engineer stationed in several parts of the world. At SEC, he specialize in grading plans, drainage analysis & plans, road designs, Hydraulic and Hydrology designs/reports, sewer collection systems & pump stations , water modeling, design reports & construction documentation, cost estimates, project managements, as built certification among many other services. He is proficient in many design software, project management software, and CAD design. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering and is a Professional Engineer licensed in Arizona. |
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Bill Kantor, P.E.-Structural Engineer
Mr.Kantor has over 47 years of experience in a broad range of civil and structural engineering for both public agencies and private consultants. Over the last 16 years, he has been associated with SEC assignments in Flagstaff and the Verde Valley involving the design of highway and roadway drainage structures; 40+ private residence floodway foundation designs; retaining wall designs (concrete, masonry, MSE and others); structural design for commercial, residential and industrial buildings. Bill began his career with ADOT, working on assignments consisting of interstate highway, bridge and drainage design. After ADOT, Bill spent 18 years as project engineer and senior project manager with a civil design firm, managing and designing municipal, county, and DOT projects including county and urban streets, storm drains, water, sewer and irrigation, bridges, other civil structures throughout Arizona. Over the last 13 years, Bill has been practicing in Phoenix, the Verde Valley and Flagstaff with an emphasis in structural design for residential, commercial, institutional and industrial buildings and bridge consulting. Over the last four decades, Bill has provided design and construction administration for several native American projects including housing, schools and medical centers. These projects were done in Needles CA, Inscription House and Many Farms, AZ and for the San Carlos Apache Housing Authority. In addition to the design of new buildings, Bill also provides designs for the remodel of residential, commercial and historic buildings. Unusual conditions including retrofit of roof framing, second story additions and foundation strengthening are areas of practice which he enjoys solving. He also specializes in civil structures including retaining walls of all types, bridges, drainage structures, i.e. box culverts, headwall-wing walls and buried vaults. |
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Neil Wilson-Senior Designer
Mr. Wilson has over 40 years of design & drafting related experience combined with on-the-ground surveying knowledge. He has extensive knowledge of a wide variety of computer software for office management, engineering, land surveying and GIS mapping. He is continually upgrading his drafting and mapping skills to take advantage of the latest technology. Areas of expertise include: mechanical design, GIS mapping, topographic, cadastral & construction surveying, earthwork & construction quantities, survey maps & plats, road, site, sewer and water system designs, processing survey & GPS data, database design and programming, CAD & document management. |
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Brian Sorrells-Survey/Forestry Technician
Mr. Sorrells has worked for SEC the past 15 years as a surveyor, drafting technician and most recently, as a forestry technician. His forestry experience includes working as a crew member on a timber stand exam in the mixed conifer timber type on the Dixie National Forest in Utah during the 2009 field season. His duties involved functioning as a tally man and learning stand exam procedures from the professional forester serving as his crew chief. By the end of the season Brian was taking measurements and making estimates that all passed inspection by his immediate supervisor and the Forest Service inspector. During the 2010 field season, Brian worked on a fixed plot stand exam crew on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. In addition, to the usual live tree evaluations made during stand exams he has received extensive experience in evaluating dead and down dead material. |
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Eric Burke–Survey Technician and CADD Draftsperson
Mr. Burke has experience working in the field as well as in the office. In the field he has worked on numerous boundary surveys, ALTA / ASCM surveys, and topographic surveys, along with work on floodplain studies, construction layout / As-builts, and PLSS sectional breakdowns. He is also versed in the setting of ground control and data file management for aerial surveys. His office experience includes drafting results of survey plats, minor land divisions maps, results of topographic surveys maps, ALTA / ASCM survey maps and utility as-built maps. His office experience also includes the research and understanding of recorded documents as they apply to ALTA / ASCM and boundary surveys. Eric is familiar with various surveying instruments including GPS and robotic total stations. He has also completed courses in Trimble real-time kinematic surveying and course 1 of advanced studies in the USPLSS. In addition, Eric has begun to study to take his L.S.I.T test. |
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Vera Hendrix, Office Manager
Ms. Hendrix joined SEC in January of 2017. She is a retired teacher who has been working as an office manager or bookkeeper for the past 15 years. Ms. Hendrix is responsible for the office side of SEC and readily admits to enjoying reconciling the bank accounts!
Ms. Hendrix joined SEC in January of 2017. She is a retired teacher who has been working as an office manager or bookkeeper for the past 15 years. Ms. Hendrix is responsible for the office side of SEC and readily admits to enjoying reconciling the bank accounts!
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Steve Biasini-Planner/Landscape Architect
Mr. Biasini earned a masters degree in landscape architecture in 1974. His work experience includes construction management and supervision, teaching and private consulting. He has been providing landscape architecture and project management services in the Verde Valley since 1978. Among his many notable projects in the surrounding communities are the Wal Mart shopping center, the Verde Valley Guidance Center, Cottonwood Ranch residential development and The Crossroads at Mingus subdivision. |
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